It took years to send a bill to defund Planned Parenthood to the president's desk -- and less than 24 hours for him to reject it. Shortly after noon, President Obama did what everyone expected him to: vetoed a measure that would have ended the moral injustice of ObamaCare and taxpayers' forced partnership with America's biggest abortion provider. The bill, which would have reversed some of the havoc these failures have unleashed on the country, was just the eighth that President Obama vetoed in his two terms.
From now on, history will hold this president responsible for shackling Americans to an organization that built its empire on the backs of innocent children and traffics in the sale of their parts. For pro-lifers, the victory was never in the president's hands -- but in Congress's, which proved its sincerity in fighting for the values we hold dear. As Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said earlier today, Americans can take heart that this is the beginning of the end of two horrible policies. "The idea that ObamaCare is the law of the land for good is a myth. This law will collapse under its own weight, or it will be repealed. Because all those rules and procedures Senate Democrats have used to block us from doing this? That's all history," he added. "We have now shown that there is a clear path to repealing ObamaCare without 60 votes in the Senate. So, next year, if we're sending this bill to a Republican president, it will get signed into law."
Our deepest thanks to conservatives in the House and Senate for doing everything it took to make good on their promise to pass a bill defunding Planned Parenthood. We look forward to 2017, when that hard work will finally pay off under the leadership of a pro-life president!
